The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-10

A cable dispatcl to the New York
Horld tells how tw, Of TIE riders of Buf-
ialo Bills Wild w 81 ow took part in
&n English fox hunt
There was strik q t.st of the quality
Of American h3rsen .nst p as dis played
in Iertfordshire la Sa urday. Mr.. F.
G. Swlndell, We; thy country gentle
man, who is own, Of fac pack of
hounds, is devote =. fox bunting.
There was large meet at his place on
Saturday, which over ore hundred gen
tlemcn attended. There were also some
twenty-five or thirty ladies present.
Mr.. Swindell invited Eroncho Bill and
Red Shirt to come down and take part in
the hunt. These are two Of the most fa-
mons riders at the Wild West Show. Mr..
Swindell wished to test the character of
the American style Of riding in 4 sharp
brush across the most difficult country.
Neither Bill nor Red Shirt had ever rid
den across English country before, and
in all Of their riding had done very little
Jumping. They came to the meet and
accepted mounts from Mr.. Swindell
The horses furnished them were strange.
The saddles and the brides were English.
~ citi4tT DUc Vi tIt i1iutTltdn TluCT6 n3Q
ever been in an English saddle before
They examined the curb and light snaffle
carefully before mounting. When both
Were seated in their saddles they immed-
a;ely called out for the stirrups to be
heightened so that they could ride with
straight legs Red Shirt wore his chiefs
dress Broncho Bill had on his roagh
camp suit. The Englishmen were, of
conrse, in full hunting pink. Mr.. Swim
dell addressed Broncho Bill before setting
out. He said
"There is hardly a man here but what
believes you will come to grief. You are
going to try new kind Of riding and l
hope you will do your country credit"
Brcncho Bill says that he made up his
mind that no Englishman should get
ahval Of him in that hunt if he broke his
neck. The course run was ten miles
Hill and Red Shirt were furnished with
two changes of horses in the run. The
O. country. There were a great number
of hedges, stiff fences and bitches. Bron-
cho Bill says that he had never jumped
:. fence before in his life. He declares
that he felt very queer rising to the first
one, but that after he had been over one
or two he did not mind. At the first
fence six of his English competitors went
down, and from then on Red Shirt and
Bill led the whole crowd. Red Shirt be-
came wild with excitement. He yelled
and dashed ut the fences ablaze with
excitement as if he were charging. The
Master of Hounds haa to call out to them
not to run down the hounds. They kept
close to the tails of me dogs until the fox
escaped by narrow stretch of sixty feet
into his hole. Mr.. Swindell himself, was
the only Englishmal who was near him
at the close. The representatives of the
Wild West received warm congratula-
tons afterwards TO, their brilliant riding.
They jumped over every obstacle in their
way, not going around one. Mr.. Swindell
encouraged them al through the ride by
telling them not . spare the horses
that he had twenty-five more left, and
appeared to take as much pride in their
victory as if he had been an American.
He said he would have given $500 if
they had gotten the fox.